Blossom Hill Nursery
Delphiniums and Peonies

We specialize in delphiniums and peonies. In recent years we have offered mail order services to Canadian and USA destinations, as well as direct sales from our home. Many years ago, we added British strain Delphinium elatum to our gardens and discovered that they possess stronger stems and larger florets. They are also hardier than other Delphinium elatum. We have been hybridizing our own stain ever since.

Many of the peonies that we are growing in our field are now mature enough to offer for sale. We are excited to include 43 new varieties of peonies to this year’s catalogue. We now have more than 500 varieties (2200 plants) including species, tree, herbaceous and Itoh (Intersectional) peonies. The collection produces an amazing show. Visitors are welcome at the nursery to view our many perennial beds and trial gardens. The main show for peony flowers is the month of June, with some blooming in late May and early July. Delphiniums tend to flower from mid-June to mid-July and again in late summer and autumn.

We had another exciting year at our nursery in 2010. We were able to attend and compete at the American Peony Society convention in Wisconsin. We received several ribbons and a Court of Honour award for ‘Prairie Moon’. The Canadian Peony Society convention was held at the Oshawa Botanical Gardens in conjunction with their Peony Festival in June 2010. We won 70 ribbons including 3 Court of Honour awards. In addition, a new single yellow peony that we are growing and plan to register, received great reviews. These events are fun and informative. If you have the opportunity they are well worth attending.

We open Saturday, April 30^th until December 24^th. To highlight the peak bloom seasons we are once again inviting everyone to a Peony Open Garden event, June 4^th, 2011 and a Delphinium Open Garden event, July 2^nd, 2011. After the growing season, we still have dried flowers and Christmas decorations for sale at the nursery.

Business hours are by appointment or chance. We will be closed on Tuesdays, Wednesday and Thursday this year.

Come for a stroll.

Joe, Hazel, Amy Cook